Guys I am having issues with the ABS light coming on. It's doing my head in, straight line motorway driving and turning left mostly.
Looking at the forums I can diagnose it's the reluctor rings and maybe sensors.... I don't have the tools or knowledge to undertake the fix myself. I've brought the parts but can you believe I can't get anywhere to do the work for me.
1 place is saying as there is no fault code they can't diagnose, another place is saying the reluctors never go on these and another place refuses to just replace the rings and insists on doing the both sides driveshaft. Lol that last quote was just a shy under £800!!!
So my question is does anyone have any recommendations within say a 25 mile radius of Coventry that will actually just do the reluctor rings for me..
Some garages are utter crap........ Cant diagnose without a code is a total cop out, at least do the basics and have a look and scan it
Any garage worth going to would know how common this is
Drive the car with diagnostic equipment connected will show the fault anyway
Absolutely agree, they basically tried flipping it on me, saying they were doing me a favour. Not doing unnecessary work etc only for something else to go.
I've contacted loads of people just can't find someone to do it. There's a guy in Northampton, he said he can do the reluctor rings but doesn't know price. I don't wanna drive it there for him to turn round and say he wants £000s outta me.
I get I gotta pay but looking at others posts it shouldn't run that much in costs
I got a single reluctor ring and wheel speed sensor replaced at a place near Edinburgh. They only charged me a couple hours labour (I supplied the parts)
They said it's a really common issue, so surprised you're having trouble finding somebody to fit it!
I have the same issue but have cured mine via simply taking out the abs sensor cleaning the bottom and replacing but not letting it go all the way home giving just enough clearance to allow the sensor to work properly, it is only a temporary fix but will buy you some time
I have the same issue but have cured mine via simply taking out the abs sensor cleaning the bottom and replacing but not letting it go all the way home giving just enough clearance to allow the sensor to work properly, it is only a temporary fix but will buy you some time
I have the same issue but have cured mine via simply taking out the abs sensor cleaning the bottom and replacing but not letting it go all the way home giving just enough clearance to allow the sensor to work properly, it is only a temporary fix but will buy you some time
Any fix will be temporary. New reluctor rings will eventually rise up again
So just done the right hand side, took an hour or so. Looks like about 3 times in 100000 miles. Pays your money (or not in my case) and takes your choice.
But i will say it takes a bit of patience and i always seem to be doing it in the rain.[emoji17][emoji17]
Re lifting up the sensor.
I would be a bit concerned that its getting too far from the reluctor ring and won't act as it is supposed to.
I don't have a definitive gap, but i use a .1 mm feeler gauge as that was the greatest gap i measured when things started going wrong.
Not saying you are wrong, just my thinking.
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I got these done on mine a couple of months ago. Bought two reluctor rings and two rear sensors off eBay for about £30 total and my garage charged me £90 for removing old ones and replacing with these and using the permanent fix method in the sticky thread. Any garage worth anything should be able to do this and know what reluctor rings are and roughly how to change them, regardless of whether they run a diagnostic or not. Though if they've never had one of your type of car in then they may take longer due to doing for first time as my mechanic says its awkward on BMW as you need to remove lots more bits than on most other cars and in a specific order too. I didn't fancy doing it myself so just feeding back what they said.
I got these done on mine a couple of months ago. Bought two reluctor rings and two rear sensors off eBay for about £30 total and my garage charged me £90 for removing old ones and replacing with these and using the permanent fix method in the sticky thread. Any garage worth anything should be able to do this and know what reluctor rings are and roughly how to change them, regardless of whether they run a diagnostic or not. Though if they've never had one of your type of car in then they may take longer due to doing for first time as my mechanic says its awkward on BMW as you need to remove lots more bits than on most other cars and in a specific order too. I didn't fancy doing it myself so just feeding back what they said.
In Leicester, I paid £100 to get both my rings put on.
We spent almost half a day trying to get the rings off my car and just couldn't, tried wd40 and heat on the driveshaft and just couldn't. Best bet was to get it sent to garage
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